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Ah yes, but you presented that "dominion" as a God-given right rather than an usurpation by sinful humans.



Trees already have enough bark.  The Bible doesn't say "stewardship" nor has Christianity taught the concept of stewardship, but rather they have traditionally taught that dominion meant dominance, enslaving of nature, exploiting and using it, they have taught that all of Creation was put here for our benefit to use as we saw fit.  Why do you think the churches have been so down on animals' rights, on care for the environment?



Once again you are advocating religious dogma instead of thinking for yourself. How can you truly love God and and destroy His creation for inconsequential reasons?  You are pushing the standard Christian concept of man and God on one side and all of the rest of Creation on the other. Anthropocentric it's called.  I think that a recognition of and reverence for all life is where we need to go.  But there is middle ground--which you will ignore by going to a cheap shot about small pox or some such--in which people can defend themselves against genuine threats while giving part of the world to other lifeforms so that they can live as God made them.



Occasion for sin?  What you mean is encouragement for sin, don't you? We part company here too, I don't think that recreational sex is sin if one is not spreading disease, causing unwanted children, or violating one's vows.  Birth control is a good thing, much better than abortion or abusing of unwanted  children.  Condoms in marriage prevent unwanted pregnancy, seems to be working... maybe you're using them the wrong way.



Wrong on both counts.  Your church condemns gay people and transgendered people, it has a history of killing them and burning them at the stake (Joan of Arc comes to mind) and the Bible has scriptures that condemn gays to death.  Additionally, when the majority uses their power to persecute a minority with no scientific evidence to support their religious claims and when nothing substantive can be produced to show that gay or transgendered people are damaging to society, that too is bashing.  Your church has had pogrom against gay and transpeople for hundreds of years despite the fact that in times gone by the Catholic church married gay people--even gay saints.



Okay, they're sweet, but don't over do it.



What's unbelievable is that you are so fixated on homosexual ass, so much so that you can't learn.  Let's try again slowly, Nums, pay attention: I'm not a homosexual, I've never had sex with a man. 


But, that said, I don't see any reason why sex between consenting adults (within the boundaries that I set down above: no disease, no children, no violating vows) should be called sinful.  And your attacks on gay men especially are unwarranted in that more heterosexual people have AIDS than gays and gay men don't produce unwanted children. You are hypocritical to ignore Jesus commandments to you in favor of using the Bible as a weapon against people you don't like, but whom you are fixated on anyway.



No revisionism here, eh Nums?  It was all those bad Christians who ran the Inquisition wasn't it?  Joan of Arc was doing drugs and burned herself at the stake, didn't she?  Have your ever read about what the Catholics did in the New World, the way they committed genocide on the indigenous people's? No? Well no surpise there, ignorance is indeed blissful isn't it?


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